TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV[2]

Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      Printed from a typewritten text with Lenin’s additions and signature.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeBryukhanov, People’s Commissariat for FoodCopy to Comrade Smolyaninov

Theremust be a speed-up in the shipment of sacks for
Comrade Vladimirov, Ukraine’s People’s Commissar for
Food, and also the shipment of goods for theUkrainian
commodity exchange fund. Please notify me of your
subsequent
instructions.[1]Give me exact information today, and
keep me informed daily, formally and in writing, about
what is being actually done. This is Bryukhanov’s personal
responsibility. Appoint persons responsible for detailed
measures.

LeninChairman, C.L.D,

[1]Thefollowing text is in Lenin’s hand.—Ed.

[2]Writtenin connection with a complaint of the People’s
Commissar for Food of the Ukraine, M. K. Vladimirov, over the
unsatisfactory supply of the Ukraine with goods and the lack of sacks
which slowed down the procurement of grain in the Ukraine.

OnJune 1, a telegram signed by Lenin was sent to Vyazniki
(Shuya Uyezd, Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia) on the dispatch
of 500,000 food sacks to the Ukraine by uyezd factories within
a week.